New Years Eve celebrations get abruptly called off aboard a luxury boat, leaving the would-be party-goers bound, gagged, and wondering if they'll even see the new year in my new Poser picture, which you can see right here.
Note: The picture is from Dangerous Animals.
I saw Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry for the first time in the movie theater as a kid. In retrospect, I was probably too young to be watching it at that time.
Back then, I was smittened with actress Lynn Borden. She played the wife of a grocery store manager (Roddy McDowell) who gets abducted in her own home (along with her young daughter). She and her daughter are held hostage until McDowell's character pays them a ransom from the store's safe.
I'm not sure if I fell in love with her because she was a beautiful woman, or because she had this great barefoot bondage scene. Even at that tender age I was already a BF bondage fanatic.
Sadly, Lynn left us a few years back, but her performance in DMCL lives on, and you can see it right here.
P2, a thriller about a woman executive (Rachel Nichols) getting trapped in a parking garage with a psycho who works as a security guard (Wes Bentley), has become another Christmas movie in the tradition of Diehard.
It takes place during the Holiday Season, like Diehard. But instead of dodging a group of terrorists, Angela (Nichols) jut has to stay one step ahead of Thomas (Bently).
There's brief bondage, with Angela gettng her wrists cuffed behind her back at one point.
But P2 is worthwhile because Nichols loses her shoes and goes barefoot throughout the better part of the film's running time.
So it's a great BF thriller. And since it takes place on Christmas Eve, you can watch it along with Diehard, or Batman Returns. P2 was the direct inspiration for I Love You, a 2023 Indian Hindi-language film.
I called this post "The Scans" because the pictures were all scanned from magazines.
As you can see by the subject matter in each photo, they were scanned from bondage magazines.
I didn't scan them myself. I was way too shy back then to get these magazines myself. They were always on the top shelf of the magazine section, in full view of the front counter, with both the store workers and customers all watching as you picked up a copy of BONDAGE DELIGHTS? Oh, no way! No thanks.
When I first got online, back in the mid 1990s, I found several sites that offered scans from these magazines.
Every New Years, I get these romantic notions about years' past, and the nostalgia for things from times before overtakes me.
Until I remember that things aren't so bad now. I can download stuff pretty quickly these days--as opposed to waiting a half an hour just to download a still picture.
Hard to believe that Camelot, the TV show that aired on Starz, is almost fifteen years old, now.
The series, which attempted to be a more rough and gritty version of the King Arthur legend, only lasted one season before being canceled.
But it still gave us Eva Green in this bondage scene in the second episode, The Sword and the Crown.
She's placed there overnight by King Lot (James Purefoy, who also starred in Rome), who's not happy with her attitude.
She survives behind tied to a pole with her hands over her head all night (as well as being in a skimpy outfit in the cold).
As noted before, this more gritty and salacious take on the King Arthur legend didn't fly, but this same darker and sexier tone with a fantasy story would explode in popularity just a few years later on HBO with Game of Thrones.
It's time for that perennial Holiday classic, the Dexter Christmas Show!
This is really the seventh season episode, Do The Wrong Thing, which just happens to take place around Christmas. But does that automatically make this a Christmas show? Maybe. Like how Die Hard and Batman Returns are Christmas movies, just because they take place around the Holidays.
Dexter--the serial killer who kills other serial killers--captures another killer by the name of Hannah, played by the lovely Yvonne Strahovski. And, following his usual MO, Dexter wraps her down to a table in a tent that's filled with Christmas decorations. She's completely naked under her wrapping.
But instead of killing her, Dexter cuts Hannah loose and makes love to her right then and there. This scene is simply WONDERFUL, and you can see it right here.
Tiffany thought she would enjoy a nice, cozy Christmas at home. Boy, was she wrong! Find out what happened (and what didn't) under the mistletoe right here.
Note: the picture I used here is from Jake and the Fatman.
I can't recall if this was the very first bondage scene that I saw as a very young boy, but I do remember being memserized by this when I first saw it on TV many years ago.
Soldier Blue starred a young Candice Bergen, who gets captured by Donald Pleasance and gets tied up in the back of his horse-drawn wagon (along with a soldier played by Peter Strauss).
Bergen and Strauss later get tied to a tree, from which they eventually make their escape.
I didn't see the poster for the film, which featured a barefoot and bound woman, until I was an adult. I still wish Bergen was dressed like this when she was tied up. Oh well.
Heather Locklear is the lead actress in Return of Swamp Thing, the 1989 sequel to the original Swamp Thing movie. She plays Abigail Arcane
And, as you can see, Abby gets herself into a wee bit of trouble.
Louis Jordan plays Heather's evil stepfather, Dr. Anton Arcane, who's still doing ghastly experiments in the Florida swamps.
And, from this scene, it appears that Arcane's step-daughter is next for him to experiment on.
Heather doesn't look too pleased with this turn of events.
Sarah Douglas plays Arcane's lab assistant. She was also in Superman II as Ursa.
But no worries, Swamp Thing comes to save the day.
Return of Swamp Thing was directed by Jim Wynorski (Chopping Mall).
Adrienne Barbeau stars in the 1982 film Swamp Thing, which was based on the DC Comic of the same name.
At one point in the film, Alice Cable (Barbeau) is captured by the evil Arcane (Louis Jourdan), who "invites" her to dinner.
Cable sits tied to her chair with rope, while Arcane entertains his other dinner guests, who apparently have no qualms about seeing a woman tied to a chair.
Although she's not barefoot (Cable has been outfitted with shoes, along with the dress), this remains one of my favorite bondage scenes, thanks to the ironic situation of a woman struggling for her life against her bonds--all while in the middle of an extravagant dinner party.
This first Swamp Thing movie was directed by Wes Craven, who would go on to direct the horror masterpiece A Nightmare On Elm Street right after this. Swamp Thing would get a sequel, plus several TV shows, including a recent short-lived series that aired on the CW.
Jacqui Gordon plays the damsel in Bellamy, an Australian TV series. This particular episode aired back in the 1980s.
She plays a young woman from a wealthy family who has been abducted for ransom.
This is one of my all-time favorite clips--because, when she's abducted, Jacqui is barefoot, and clad only in her bra and panties. This is all she wears throughout her bondage scenes.
The clip is pretty long, with a lot of nice moments, which you can see right here.
Liv Tyler (The Lord of the Rings) stars in The Ledge. A drama/thriller about her dealing with an abusive boyfriend.
Tyler plays Shana, who works at a hotel. She gets an order to deliver some booze to one of the rooms, only to see that it was her bitter boyfriend who had called her. As Admiral Ackbar would say, "It's a trap!"
Taking her hostage, the boyfriend, who's not the most stable dude around, strips Shana of her uniform, down to just her black panties, and ties her to a chair.
What's interesting is that she's tied to the chair backwards, so that her bare chest is covered. But she's still clad only in her black panties, with a nice shot showing her bound bare feet.
And she's even ball-gagged to boot. No worries, she survives this encounter. Whether it's dealing with Orcs, or psychos in hotel rooms, Liv manages to come through it all.
